Whitney Houston’s longtime friend and alleged lesbian lover is sharing more insight into their passionate, heartbreaking relationship.

Robyn Crawford sat down on The Advocate‘s LGBTQ&A podcast to promote her new book, A Song For You: My Life With Whitney Houston, in which she claims they were romantic partners right before the Grammy winner’s career took off in the ‘80s.

Overall, the tea was piping hot: not only did the author speak at length about her rumored same-sex relationship with the singer, she went on about Whitney’s other romances before pondering how different the star’s life would’ve been if she was able to be her authentic self.

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As for Whitney’s hetero relationships, Robyn says the I Wanna Dance With Somebody singer was more interested in Eddie Murphy than her eventual ex-husband Bobby Brown, explaining:

“Her first earlier interactions with Bobby was that she wasn’t going to get serious with him. They were just having fun together. She was more passionate and more interested in Eddie Murphy.”

But Whitney’s passion with the actor couldn’t compare to her passion with Robyn, according to the author. 

Explaining how she and the music icon were intimate on every level, the author added:

“Whitney did not like labels…Our love, that we experienced, we were intimate on every level. We were friends, that’s how we came together, as friends. We got to know each other in an open, bare, naked way. The feeling that we felt between us, there was a moment we shared, it was physical. We weren’t ashamed of it, but we were preparing ourselves for the big business, which was huge at that time.”

The two women may not have been ashamed of their same-sex love, but they knew other people would look down on it at the time. (Including Whitney’s gospel singer mother Cissy Houston, who, in 2013, told Oprah Winfrey she “absolutely” would’ve had a problem with her daughter being gay.)

Unfortunately, Robyn said the pair decided to shut down the physical aspect of their relationship before Whitney recorded her first album, recalling:

“The love that we shared, it was deep, really deep. One day we decided, before her career really took off, before she recorded her first album, that if people found out about us, they would use it against us. So we made the determination then to not be physical any longer. I mean, we sat down and made a conscious decision that we would not do this. And even though, if she wanted to…Whitney was, she spearheaded this, I loved her, I would have gone ahead with it, just like we were caring for each other. If we wanted to touch, I would have. But it was important to me too for our love to be unconditional, and nothing ever changed the way we…we were truly connected. We just sacrifice the physical.”

NBD, right?

As you likely know, Whitney struggled with drug use later in her life and died in 2012 at the age of 48. Bobby previously said he believed the star would still be alive today “if Robyn was accepted into Whitney’s life.”

Sadly, that’s not what ended up happening. But Robyn still holds onto the fantasies she claims Whitney had of them living on an island somewhere selling lemonade together. 

She mused:

“I mean, in an imaginary world, the love that we had and what we shared, if it was like this then, oh man, I don’t even know where that would have been. Maybe we would have been on some Island somewhere with that lemonade stand that she kept saying she envisioned.”

Maybe in another life…

Ch-ch-check out Robyn’s full podcast interview HERE.

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